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Article	Date	Author Name
Poetry Grabbed Me by the Collar: An Interview with Eli Clare	April 2021	Kathi Woolfe
On Inaugural Poet—Amanda Gorman	April 2021	E. Ethelbert Miller
Ruth Bader Ginsberg: An Appreciation	November 2020	Kathi Wolfe
What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Identity	Summer 2020	Eileen Cronin
If You Don’t Know Me by Now…	Summer 2020	E. Ethelbert Miller
Imagining Your Way through Pandemic: A Love Letter for Students of Creative Writing in Times of Crisis	Summer 2020	Emily Carr
Writing in a Time of Disaster	Summer 2020	Debra Spark
What The Plague Can Teach Us About Ourselves	Summer 2020	Michael C. White
Extending the World: An Interview with Esmé Weijun Wang	April 2020	Leslie McGrath
"Embracing my tribe of writers": A Conversation with Sue William Silverman	April 2020	Supriya Bhatnagar
A Conversation on Craft with Ursula K. Le Guin	March/April 2017	David Naimon
Middle Passage at 25: Charles Johnson Reflects on His National Book Award–Winning Novel and More	February 2017	Robin Lindley
Towards a New Creative Writing Pedagogy	October/November 2016	Fred D'Aguiar
Ferguson, Whiteness as Default, & the Teaching of Creative Writing	October/November 2016	David Mura
In Our Way: Racism in Creative Writing	October/November 2016	Claudia Rankine
An Interview with William Least Heat-Moon	December 2015	William Naparsteck
The Quarrel with Ourselves: Robert Penn Warren’s “World of Action and Liability”	March/April 2015	Natasha Trethewey
The Master Craftsman: Function Follows Form in Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady	March/April 2015	Douglas Bauer
Ars Poetica and the Talking Cure: Poetry, Therapy, & the Quest to Create	October/November 2014	Lisa C. Krueger
Endlessly Branching: An Interview with Arthur Sze	September 2013	Andy Fogle
Shine in that Vivid Isolation: A Case Study of the Ghazal in the Contemporary American Lyric	May/Summer 2013	Tyler Mills
Balancing Craft & Commitment: Writing Political Fiction	March/April 2013	Rosellen Brown, Tracy Daugherty, & Ellen Meeropol
The Postmodern Memoir	March/April 2012	Hugh Ryan
The Absence of Their Presence: Mythic Character in Fiction	December 2011	Steven Schwartz
A Conversation with Nikki Giovanni	March/April 2011	Chapman Hood Frazier
Novel Anxiety: Notes from the Genre War Trenches	March/April 2011	Martha Cooley
Between Starshine & Clay:An Interview with Lucille Clifton	February 2011	Remica L. Bingham
More Than a Writer's Writer: A Tribute to Vance Bourjaily	December 2010	Virgil Suárez & Dinty W. Moore
Turning the Screws of Story Construction with Henry James	May/Summer 2010	Aimee Liu
Odds on Ends	February 2010	Molly Giles
Poetry & Ethics: Writing About Others	December 2009	Natasha Sajé
An Interview with Sheryl St. Germain	October/November 2009	Allison Schuette
Like Water Remembering Light: An Interview with Marilyn Nelson	September 2009	Leslie McGrath
How We Are Changed by the Rhythms of Poetry	September 2009	Karin de Weille
Sin's Entertainment: On Dante's Inferno	March/April 2009	Martha Cooley
Silence & Storytelling	February 2009	Alice Mattison
Elegy for Desire: Luis Omar Salinas 1937-2008	October/November 2008	Christopher Buckley
Machines Made Out of Words: Translating Function & the Translator's Function	October/November 2008	Tony Barnstone
The Interval in Writing: What Happens Between Pussycats & Thugs Does Not Stay Between Pussycats & Thugs	September 2008	Brian Baldi
The Meandering River: An Overview of the Subgenres of Creative Nonfiction	September 2008	Sue William Silverman
On Difficulty in Poetry	May/Summer 2008	Reginald Shepherd
My Touchstones	March/April 2008	Alan Cheuse
Aural Invention as Floral Splendor: Louis Zukofsky's Vision of Natural Beauty in 80 Flowers	February 2008	Leon Lewis
Beautiful Clarity: Jane Kenyon, Anna Akhmatova, and the Luminous Particular	September 2007	David Harbilas
Ouija, Canoe, Haiku: A Collaborative Inquiry into Collaborative Poetry	December 2006	Isaac Cates & Chad Davidson
An Interview with Rita Dove	October/November 2005	Elizabeth Alexander
Return to Sender: Memory, Betrayal, and Memoir	October/November 2005	Mark Doty
An Interview with Chang-rae Lee	May/Summer 2005	Sarah Anne Johnson
An Interview with Edward P. Jones	December 2004	Sherry Ellis
Peering at Privacy in Creative Nonfiction	September 2004	Kaylene Johnson
"Imp of Verbal Darkness": Poetry Hoaxes & the Postmodern Politic	December 2003	Rebecca Warner
An Interview with Ai	December 2003	Tomas Q. Morin
Writing and Moaning	December 2003	Alan Cheuse
An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin	October/November 2003	Ramola D
The Treasure Trove of Metaphor: More on Poetry Anthologies	October/November 2003	Rachel Hadas
An Interview with Nick Hornby	February 2003	Tom DeMarchi
A Conversation with Dorothy Allison	October/November 2002	Renée Olander
Remembering Eudora Welty	October/November 2002	Richard Bausch
Poetry and Survival	September 2002	Gregory Orr
An Interview with Jayne Anne Phillips	May/Summer 2002	Sarah Anne Johnson
An Interview with Li-Young Lee	May/Summer 2002	Marie Jordan
The Muse in the News	February 2002	Andrew Ciofalo
"Tis Backed Like a Weasel": The Slipperiness of Metaphor	March/April 2001	Tony Hoagland
Bend Sinister: A Handbook for Writers	October/November 2000	Alice McDermott
From Long Shots to X-Rays: Distance & Point of View in Fiction Writing	September 2000	David Jauss
The Self as a Literary Construct	December 1999	Jocelyn Bartkevicius
An Interview with Mark Doty	March/April 1998	Dale Boyer
Rules & Reality in Fiction	May/Summer 1997	Ron Tanner
Italicized Writings	October/November 1995	Diana Garcia
Reviewing Literary Citizenship	September 1995	Valerie Miner
On the Founding of WC&F: Community for Writers	May/Summer 1995	Kelleen Zubick
Hypertext: Of Mouse & Man	October/November 1994	Sven Birkerts
An Interview with Mary Oliver	September 1994	Renee Olander
An Interview with Rosellen Brown	February 1994	Alexander Neubauer
Emily Dickinson, Madonna, Boomers, Busters, the Old Criterion, & the Next Millennium—	September 1993	Martin Schecter
The Great Ventriloquist Act: Gender and Voice in the Fiction Workshop	September 1993	Julie Brown
Poetry as Democracy: A Letter to AWP	February 1990	Garrett Hongo
Teaching & Transference: A Response to Ann Turkle	September 1989	Eric Torgersen
The Old Testament and Feminist Imagination	September 1988	Alicia Ostriker
Rocks in Our Beds: A Dark Valentine to New England	September/October 1987	John Clellon Holmes
The Writer as Midwife	May 1987	Daniel Halpern
Whole Sight: Notes on New Black Fiction	February 1985	Charles Johnson
Tendril: A Brief History	February 1984	Mari Lonano
Solitude or Community: Writing As It is Taught	September 1980	Donald Justice
Committee Reports to the Members: II. Guidelines for Teachers of Writing	May 1979	AWP Committee
Beyond the Familiar Landscape of Violence: A Conversation with Philip Metres	April 2021	Milena Williamson
Intersections in Canadian and American Indian Fiction	April 2021	Erika T. Wurth
SUGGESTED TEACHING GUIDE for “That’s Interesting” by Debra Spark	April 2021	Tanya Perkins
Nonfiction/Nonbinary Literary Identities: An Investigation of Contemporary Writers Queering Gen(der/re) in America	April 2021	Chachi Hauser
Following the Thread: A Dialogue	April 2021	Bonnie Friedman & Kyoko Mori
Architecture, Audience, & the Invasions of the World: A Conversation with Rebecca Makkai	April 2021	Stephanie Vanderslice
What Is This Thing?: The Paragraph as Literary Nexus and an Argument for the Prose Poem	April 2021	Gerry LaFemina
An Interview with Nancy Naomi Carlson	February 2021	Christina Daub
SUGGESTED TEACHING GUIDE for “Brief But True” by Jennifer Sinor	February 2021	Jeannine Ouellette
An Interview with Heather Lanier	February 2021	Jason Gray
Artistic Interpretations, Assumptions, and Expectation in Creative Nonfiction	February 2021	Amy Mackin
Success and the Late Blooming Author	February 2021	Ellen Meeropol, Celeste Gainey, Sandra Gail Lambert, and Cynthia Robinson Young
An Interview with Tim O'Brien	February 2021	Joe O’Connell
“Love You I Must”: Dudley Randall and the Ballad Tradition	February 2021	Teow Lim Goh
That’s Interesting	February 2021	Debra Spark